Good evening gang. With December and the start of meteorological winter just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to play a little game. Let’s call it: “What winter am I?”. It’s time to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to find the winter I’m talking about.

Here are your clues…

– High temps for the first 5 days of December: 60,61,55,50 and 53.

– December 13-16th high temps: 51,64,57 and 50

– January 14-18 high temps: 50,46,51,60,69

– Some high temps from February: 50,51,66,51,57,61,60,79,60,64 and 68

So, if you only had those numbers to go by, would you take a repeat of that and everything that happened in between for the winter ahead?

Think about that one before you answer… this could be a setup. 😉

Now, put your detective hat on and see if you can come up with the winter I’m talking about. I’ll give you guys the answer with my overnight update. Don’t forget to make sure your Flux Capacitor is… well… fluxing…

Well, I think he is talking about 1985 and I remember that year well. I was a senior in high school. We got out for Christmas that year and it snowed so much that we didn’t go back until after Valentine’s Day. We ended up going to school on Saturdays that spring to get our days in.

Well, if it takes a bunch of little snows to get us to good total, give me rain instead. All that little snows are good for are accidents and salt crusted vehicles. Statistical fact more accidents happen with the smaller snows.

I would rather have a few real good events in a winter like the 70s, 80s and 90s rather than the “death of a thousand cuts” little snows to get the same total. North Madison has seen two snows around six inches (one seemed bigger due to drifts of very dry snow) and that is it besides all of the other snows that would not even intimidate a six month old Chihuahua.

I stick by the convention of trend that we are more likely to get big ice events rather than big snow events. We need a big event trend buster in central KY. Heck, western KY has become deprived as well over the years.